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[quote name='dood' timestamp='1339667895' post='1692186'] The venue that the band is performing at should hold a PRS entertainment license. Some of the cost of the license is said to cover (on average) any cover versions / disco tracks being played. This money should get back to the copyright owner via the license fee? Not that I have ever seen that detailed on a royalty payment myself!! I once played a covers gig and two retired ladies came in with PRS cards asking for a list of the covers that we play, as the venue was getting a 'spot check' from PRS. I assume these surveys are to get an idea what material is being performed in venues, but I can certainly see that this isn't an exhaustive survey! [/quote] That makes sense actually, and I did consider that after I posted. Next time two people come up to you and ask for your set list just respond with "yes we are playing Mustang Sally tonight!". Dan

To my knowledge the issue is when you claim it as your own. If you don't charge for the cd and you credit the original artist then I don't see a problem. I don't see why you would have to pay a royalty fee for performing a cover. How would pub and wedding bands get by? Again, this is all to my knowledge, you could give the MU a shout. Dan

As far as I'm aware, it only becomes a problem when you charge for your cd. If you are, as above, get in touch with the copyright owner. Dan

Yeah, big +1 for Off The Wall. That album really got me into groove writing. One of my personal favourites is burn this disco out, I think it's one of MJ's finest vocal performances. Dan

When you click on the link, underneath the banner there is 'The Bands', after clicking on that you can select genre. Select country and we will come up on the page. Not the most user friendly of sites I know. Dan

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1339170218' post='1684856'] Done, good luck man! [/quote] Cheers man! The help is very much appreciated! Especially as we're yet to acquire a manager. But the ball is starting to roll, we're getting radio interviews, played Rockfield festival last weekend and were booked for next year before we got off the stage. The air play is building up to. Dan

Hi! My band Chloe And The High Tides have been entered in a competition to play at this years Womad Festival. We'd really appreciate some votes please! Click on the link, then 'The Bands' and click on the like thumb next to the band description for Chloe And The High Tides. https://apps.facebook.com/womadbandcomp/band_share.php?band_id=51 Thank you in advance everyone! Dan

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1339092769' post='1683591'] The originals band I play in were offered a deal, by a promoter, where we would support Alabama 3 at a decent venue in London but had to buy £300 worth of tickets (which we could sell at a 25% mark up to get our money back). Unfortunately the band all live in Edinburgh and we know very few people in London and therefore would have no chance of selling 50 tickets and getting our money back. But if you were a London band with a following it could be a good deal to get a bit of recognition for your band. [/quote] This is the bit I don't get, do promoters honestly think this will happen for a low level touring band? It's just an insane ask and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out it just isn't that feasible. Dan

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1339013296' post='1682522'] Sometimes I think that some originals bands have an over-developed sense of entitlement. IMO it's not enough to be in a band and simply turn up at a venue expecting the promoter to have done all the work. It's a two-way deal. The band should be letting everyone know that they will be playing and the promoter/venue should be doing the same. I've seen it from the other side too. Over the last 18 months the Terrortones have done several gigs where we organised the whole evening's entertainment. The amount of apathy and general untogetherness displayed by some of the bands was staggering. We basically got in touch with a whole load of (mainly) local bands that we liked the sound of, asking if they would be interested in playing. All they had to do was turn up at the venue on the evening of the gig and play. The venue would supply the PA. We'd provide drums and a basic backline and do all the main publicity. Admission would be free. We negotiated a deal with venue and if the bar takings were good enough we'd split any money between all the bands. Half the bands we contacted didn't even get back to us. One band dropped out with no reason given after all the posters and flyers had been printed. Another turned up so late on the evening just before they were due to play and spent ages setting up and then complained when we told them they had to cut their set short otherwise the evening would over-run... If you do it properly promoting a gig can be a thankless task. I can see why some just want to take the money and do little else. [/quote] Very true, and it is a pain in the hole when people don't cooperate. I think the main issue here is the fact that theres a lot of promoters who take advantage of bands naivety and make it seem that they should be grateful for the opportunity to gig. It's also the fact that a lot of promoters lump their own work onto the bands. My band (original) promotes and advertises our own gigs, but the promoter we've unfortunately had to use doesn't, and thats the problem we have. He even rang our singer up for Mondays gig and asked where we were, well she said, we've been playing in south Wales all weekend. His response was "all the other bands have been here all day, get here as soon as you can". Did we even get £5 of expenses seeing as it was an all day festival? No, we didn't. He would have made a good few hundred quid that day, and how many of the other acts had I heard of? 1, and only 'cos they played the sorry excuse of a festival a couple of months before. Most of the time he literally stands about looking smug, drinking. And I mean drinking a lot. Sorry for a fairly rant-y post, but this particular guy is a tool, and I had a gash gig, again. His organisation skills are non existent at best. Dan

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1338987643' post='1681990'] I've heard of other drummers complaining about this this effect as well. [/quote] Yep, my drummer does exactly the same, I overcome this by putting either my gig bag or amp head case behind the cab. He says it makes a little bit of difference, not a massive difference but one none the less. Give it a try and see if your drummer prefers it. Dan

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1338985000' post='1681941'] ive often found that these types of shows are a mish mash of different genre's, rather than a metal night or a rock night that my actually pull punters [/quote] Yes! I've noticed that as well! We played along side some very very rock and metal bands, and we're soft country rock! It would be nice for promotors to promote a night of live music entertainment rather than get naive bands in for lining their own pockets. It happens cos the moment a band cottons on another new and naive band comes along to take their place. As I view it anyway. Dan

[quote name='TheRev' timestamp='1338973368' post='1681710'] My band has had similar issues with a well known venue in Bristol. The promoter approached us after a very successful support slot and asked if we could play at his venue - in anyones language, this constitutes a booking, right? Over a series of emails it turns out that he's not actually willing to pay our fee, but rather we will have to sell tickets to his event, for which we will get £1 for the first 50 pepole who say they came to see us and £2 per ticket afterwards. The promoter claimed that we could potentially make £450 (our standard fee) if the night sells out. But given that the other bands on the bill would also be selling tickets under the same deal, we couldn't see how we'd make more than £200. We were also expected to arrange the four other bands for the event..... Essentially, the promoter stood to take £1200+ in ticket sales (if the event sold out) from which we stood to make £200 and the other bands on the bill £50 and we, the bands, would be doing all the work. We told him to stuff his event. [/quote] Yep, it's absolutely disgraceful. At what point is the promotor promoting? We tell people that we are asked to play a live set and that's what we'll do, we're a live band, not a box office or event organiser/promotor. The promotor I thought of in my first post in this thread on Mondays gig sat at the side of the room arms crossed, almost as if he didn't want us to do well. The room absolutely loved it, called for an encore and promotor 'X' put the music back on through the desk and muted us all. Dan

I use the 410 HR, and it give stacks of bottom end, I actually prefered it to the HF, and by a long shot to. I also have the 210P and it gets used more than the 410 now purely for use-ability. And I drive a Micra! Both are loud and sound great. If you're in the north east of England, drop me a message and try them out. Dan

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1338936023' post='1681521'] If bands are willing to pay-to-play then why not go the whole hog and hire the venue as well? If a band can't bring in enough punters, then why would a promoter want to risk their own money? Once, perhaps, but never a second time. I'm not arguing [u]for[/u] pay-to-play, just trying to recognise the difficulties and risks on both sides. [/quote] Your top point is bang on, if you're selling the tickets then it would make sense to do the whole evening your self! The second point? Well, I suppose if it fails they can blame someone else as they've agreed to bring in the crowd. The responsibility has been designated to someone else so it's essentially out of their hands. Dan

There will be a fair few posts advising you what to do coming very shortly! And you're right, you shouldn't do it. They aren't promoting it and gettiong bands to do their leg work. I had a gig last night a short drive from mine and the promotor is a monumental, insufferable tosspot. He seems to pick on me for what ever reason, he gets bands no ones heard of to exploit so he can get a sh*t load of money and if you're lucky the band will get £20 between the memebers. I won't mention the promotor as this is a public forum, he does the old you have to bring in a crowd, advertise it and sell tickets routine a lot. A message to all pay to play promotors; Bollocks to you. Dan

Cracking idea! Heres my 2 [url="http://www.facebook.com/chloeandthehightides"]http://www.facebook.com/chloeandthehightides[/url] And my other one [url="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mr-Wray-Live-Band/425253250818279"]https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mr-Wray-Live-Band/425253250818279[/url] Theres some good bands here! Dan

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1338374729' post='1673396'] Werewolves of London maybe? [/quote] Yes yes and yes! Brilliant track and thankfully a little under covered I think. I kinda agree with ChrisB to, do WoL in place of it, but then sweet home is a popular track and will go down well. Dan

Ampeg cabs are fantastic! I loved mine for the 4 weeks I had it. As to running a head as a sort of DI box, why not? I've used mine at home for recording with no cab plugged in, and used it on a couple of gigs with no cab connected and it was fine. What can happen to them? Mine's an Aguilar ag500 sc mind. Dan

Yep, big +1 for duracells. They're about £1.70 from home bargains to. Dan

[quote name='debwilliams' timestamp='1337871490' post='1666776'] Done for you Dan [/quote] Thanks Debs! I'll let you all know when the EP is released. Hope you like the teaser track 'fill me up'. Please share the band page of you enjoy it and 'like' it as well. Thanks again. Dan

[quote name='jaydentaku' timestamp='1337863754' post='1666562'] Shake your tambourine! No my style, but wow, you all have the skills! I will always support local bands. [/quote] Haha!! Thanks very much. A like and a share will go a long way. The rest of our material is very blues/rockabilly/rock, and it doesn't half get the crowd foot tappin'! Dan

Hi, my band Chloe and the High Tides are soon to release our debut EP 'Rise and Shine'. We would love for you to have a listen and if you like it, please click like and share our facebook page, [url="http://www.facebook.com/chloeandthehightides"]http://www.facebook.com/chloeandthehightides[/url] [url="http://soundcloud.com/danpietruszka63/fill-me-up"]http://soundcloud.co...ka63/fill-me-up[/url] This is possibly the single, a Dutch radio station has been in touch and is very keen to get give it airplay. So fingers crossed! Those of you in or near Sunderland, we're playing the Ivy House on Thursday 31st May and at Monmouth Blues Country Festival on the 3rd June. Thanks people! Dan

Yep! I agree, though I didn't know they'd been around so long. The certainly are reasonably priced, and I find the build quality easily on par with Music Man, and way way way above Fender. There seems to be an insane amount of mention and appreciation of them on here recently, TRBboy, I'm looking at you! I certainly feel they're worth keeping and I'm eyeing another one up, a fretted one of some sort. Theres a few custom ones I've seen, a striped one and the jogsaw ones are lovely! Dan

I'd keep going with it. You'll know what they're like when you gig them. The suggestion of passing them on to other musicians is a great one, put them on here even! Remember, you are your own worst critic. The band I'm in relies on everyone else for judgment, with extremely positive results. Dan

I have the MarkBass 104 HR, it's amazing! But I have a small car (ooh matron) and was after a matching 102, I got the 102P and it's one of the best add-ons to my kit bag I've made. I now have essentially 3 rigs, a 2x10 for most things, a 4x10 if I want a bigger sound for outdoors gigs etc, and I can put the 2 together and have a 6x10 when required. The advantage I've gained with the 102P is that it fits in the boot of my car with the seats up and parcel shelf in. This has made life soo much easier. They have a surprising amount of bottom end to them to. I don't see any reason why you couldn't use the 102P with the 115 HF, as long as they match ohm-age wise. Dan